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RAYMOND G. HARMAN is engaged in the general mer- chandise business at Camden on Gauley, Wehater County, and has here found ample scope for the development ef a substantial and prosperous enterprise. He was born in Randolph County, West Virginia, June 5, 1888, and is a son of Noah and Sarah (Nash) Harman, both natives of Virginia and representatives of families early founded in the histeric Old Dominion State. The marriage of the parents was solemnized in Pendleton County, West Vir- ginia, and the father became a prespereus farmer in Ran- dolph County, this state. He passed the closing period of his life on his homestead farm in that county, and his widow was a resident of Richweod, Nicholas County, at the time of her death in 1906. Of the six children four survive the honored parents: Samuel L. is engaged in the mercantile business at Richwood and is also the ewner of a valuable ranch property in the State of Texas; Pro- fessor James A. owns and conducts an excellent and suc- cessful school of music at Harrisonburg, Virginia; Mary is the wife ef Rev. Schuyler C. Dotson, of Beverly, Ran- dolph Ceunty; and Raymond G., ef this sketch, is the yeungest of the number.

After his graduation from the high school at Richwood Raymond G. Harmaa pursued a course of higher study by attending the University of West Virginia. He has been continuously associated with mercantile enterprise since 1910, first at Richwood, Nicholas County, and next at Blackwell, Oklahoma, where he remained until 1917, when he returned te his native state and engaged in busi- ness at Camden on Ganley, where the effective service of his establishment has gained te the same a representative supporting patronage and where he has gained prestige as a progressive business man and leyal and public-spirited citizen. His political allegiance is given to the republican party, he is a member of the Presbyterian Church, and he is affiliated with Richwoed Ledge No. 122, Ancient Free and Accepted Masona.

The year 1913 recorded the marriage ef Mr. Harman and Miaa Sadie Kirhy, and they have five children, the names and respective birth dates of whem are here re- corded : Robert, January 17, 1914; Mary C., August 8. 1915; James, June 2, 1917; William, June 15, 1919; and Jebn, April 10, 1921.

WAYNEFIELD L. STUMP, who is giving a most efficient and pepular administration as postmaster at Camden on Ganley, a thriving village in Webster County, was born in Gilmer County, this state, October 13, 1851, more than a decade prier to the creation ef West Virginia as an

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independent commonwealth. He is a son of Salathiel and Permelia A. (Stalnaker) Stump, both of whom were reared on pioneer farms in Gilmer County, the birth of the father having there occurred January 23, 1832, and the mother having been born June 23, 1831. After their marriage the parents settled on a farm in that county, and in 1860 the father engaged in the general merchandise business, his store having later been destroyed, in connection with the activities of contending troops in the Civil war. After the close of the war he again identified himself with farm enterprise, and later he purchased a sawmill and engaged in the manufacturing of lumber. Eventually he equipped a full roller-process flour mill, which he operated several years. He finally removed to Calhoun County, where he engaged successfully in the mercantile business and where he and his wife passed the remainder of their lives, both having been members of the Baptist Church, and he having been a democrat in politics. Of the ten children five are living in 1922, and of this number Waynefield L., of this sketch, is the eldest; Aurelia is the wife of L. H. Trippet; Sipio Lee is a resident of Parkersburg, this state; Laura is the wife of Mike Conoway, of Buckhannon, Upshur County; and Jacob E. resides at Parkersburg.

The schools of his native county afforded Waynefield L. Stump his youthful education, and he remained at the parental home and was associated with his father's busi- ness activities until he had passed his twenty-second birth- day anniversary. He then married, and in the intervening years by his own ability and well directed activities he has achieved substantial success. He is a stockholder in the Lanes Bottom Bank at Camden on Ganley, and in this village is the owner of the postoffice building, his own residence property and other valuable real estate. He is giving most efficient service as postmaster of the village, is a democrat in politics, is a past noble grand of Lodge No. 169 of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and both he and his wife are active members of the Baptist Church in their home village, he being a member of its Board of Trustees.

On the 7th of May, 1874, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Stump and Miss Louisa J. Ellison, and they have six children: Theodosia B., wife of W. J. White; Thur- man Z., of Camden on Gauley; Baylus; Frank; Florence H., who is the wife of Archibald Hyatt; and Sipio Gray.

HARRY S. CUSHWA, former representative of Berkeley County in the Legislature, is a successful merchant at Mar- tinsburg, and has been in close touch with the agricultural, horticultural and business interests of this community for many years.

He was born on a farm two and a half miles west of Martinsburg and is a lineal descendant of John Cushwa, a native of Alsace-Lorraine, who brought his family to Amer- ica some time between 1670 and 1680 and settled in Berks County, Pennsylvania, on land secured from the Penns.

A later generation, represented by David Cushwa, with his wife, Catherine, moved to what is now Washington County, Maryland, securing land on Conowcheque Creek in the Dry Run Creek section, three or four miles east of Clear Spring and St. Paul's Church, and he improved a farm there and lived on it the rest of his life. He took a prominent part in the Revolutionary struggle. His grandson, Jona- than Cushwa, grandfather of Harry S. Cushwa, settled in Berkeley County and bought land two and a half miles west of Martinsburg, and eventually he improved three farms. He died at the age of sixty-one. His wife was Catherine Mussleman, who survived him several years, and they reared four sons and three daughters, John, Bernard (who served as sheriff of Berkeley County, West Virginia), David, William, Elizabeth, Margaret and Katherine. Eliza- beth married George Seibert, Margaret was three times married, and Katherine married John Middlekauf, of Mary- land.

The father of Harry S. Cushwa succeeded to the owner- ship of the old homestead, and spent his life prosperously in the pursuit of general farming. He was a democrat and an elder in the Reformed Church. His children were Jona- than S., Harvey T., Kate E., Mary V., William B., Charles

G. (who served as mayor of Martinsburg two years) Harry S.

Harry S. Cushwa acquired a private and public school cation, and at the age of eighteen came to Martinsb serving an apprenticeship as a carpenter. Later with brother Harvey he engaged in business as a contractor builder, and in 1888 they entered the hardware husir Since the death of Harvey Cushwa in 1902 Harry S. C wa has been sole proprietor and has continued the busi on a flourishing scale. He is also interested in several chards in this great fruit growing section.

His interest in public affairs led to his election as a m ber of the city council in 1896, and he was chosen re sentative to the State Legislature and again in 1901. Cushwa married Fannie L. Myers, a native of Berk County and daughter of Jacob Myers. Mr. and 1, Cushwa are members of the Reformed Church, of which is a deacon.

DONALD J. Ross is prominently identified with one of important industrial enterprises of Webster County, wł he is superintendent of the Cherry River Boom & Lum Company at Gauley Mills.

In the picturesque little village of West Bay, on an : of Bras d'Or Lake, Inverness County, Nova Scotia, Dor J. Ross was born April 12, 1864, and both his name : the place of his nativity indicate unmistakably that he a scion of Scotch ancestry. He is a son of George Catherine (Morrison) Ross, both of whom were born reared in Inverness County, Nova Scotia, their respect parents having been born and reared in Scotland and } ing become early settlers in Nova Scotia, where they pas the remainder of their lives on a farm which they reclair and improved in Inverness County. George Ross and wife passed their entire lives in their native county, wh he became a prosperous farmer, and both were dev members of the Presbyterian Church. Of their eight c dren three are living at the time of this writing, in 19 the subject of this review being the only one of the ni ber in the United States; John owns and resides upor farm of 400 acres in Nova Scotia, and Margaret is wife of L. D. Morris, their home being still in Nova Sco

In the schools of his native county Donald J. Ross quired his early education, and at the age of eight years he went to Boston, Massachusetts, where he was e nected with the fisheries industry along the Atlantic Co until the autumn of that year. In 1883 he made his y to Pennsylvania, and he has since been continuously id tified with the lumber industry, with all the details of wh he is familiar through active experience. From the Keystone State he finally came to West Virginia, & here he has made an excellent record in connection w. the lumber business, of which he is now a prominent exe tive, as noted in the opening paragraph of this revi He is a stockholder in the First National Bank at Cow

The political allegiance of Mr. Ross is given to the publican party, and in the time-honored Masonic fratern he is affiliated with Camden Lodge No. 107, A. F. and A. . of which he is a past master; Sutton Chapter No. 29, R. M .; Sutton Commandery No. 16, Knights Templar; ¿ with the temple of Beni-Kedem of the Mystic Shrine in City of Charleston. He has been specially prominent a influential as a member of the Independent Order of C Fellows, of the local lodge of which he is a past no grand, besides having served eighteen years as its tre urer. In the Encampment body of the fraternity he it past chief patriarch, besides being a member of the : junct organization, the Daughters of Rebekah.

On the 30th of October, 1886, was solemnized the m riage of Mr. Ross and Miss Edith J. DeLong, of Blancha Center County, Pennsylvania, and of the eight children this union all are living except one: George A., Chaunc Edith J., Burton (deceased), Thelma, Clair, Donald J., and Juanita.

JAMES W. HINKLE is a vigorous and efficient executi and holds the position of foreman of the Cherry Riv Boom and Lumber Company at Gauley Mills, Webs

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nav, this being one of the important industrial concerns t/s section of the state.

M Hinkle was born in Nicholas County, West Virginia, 1g t 3, 1868, and is a son of Samuel and Eliza (McMil- Hinkle, both natives of what is now Greenbrier my, this state, where they were reared and educated I here they continued to maintain their residence until ai: removal to Webster County. Here the father became wner of an excellent farm, and here he and his wife æl the remainder of their lives. He was a republican ptics and Mrs. Hinkle was aa earnest member of the wodist Episcopal Church, South. Of their eleven chil- erthe following are now living (1922) : Margaret, Het- ,h. B., Bettie, Newman, M. D., and Mary F. (twias), ate and James W.

Te activities of the home farm early enlisted a due a of the attention of James W. Hinkle, and in the aswhile he profited by the advantages offered in the hels of the period. He remained at the parental home t he was thirty years of age, and he has been actively wified with the timber and lumber-manufacturing busi- a for fully thirty-five years, during the last eighteen of ut he has been foreman for the Cherry River Boom & mer Company. He is a stockholder ia the First Na- yıl Bank at Richwood, and is aligned in the ranks of the polican party. His wife holds membership in the Meth- i Episcopal Church, South. In the Masonic fraternity affiliated with Camden Lodge No. 107, A. F. and A. . Sutton Chapter No. 29, R. A. M .; and Sutton Com- lery, No. 16, Knights Templar. He has passed the of- i chairs in the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and member of both the Lodge and Encampment bodies of EKnights of Pythias.

igust 3, 1899, recorded the marriage of Mr. Hinkle Miss Nannie Hinkle. They have no children.

ORTH D. MCCLUNG. On the 5th of August, 1919, Mr. lung was appointed postmaster of the City of Rich- ul, Nicholas County, and his effective administration has ed to augment his personal popularity in his native ty. He was born on his father's homestead farm near wood, on the 29th of October, 1884. He is a son of ison G. and Fannie (Grose) McClung, and is a scion of of the honored pioneer families of this part of West rinia. Jackson G. MeClung was born on a pioneer farm Ticholas County, July 14, 1849, and his wife likewise was 1 on a farm in this county, October 14, 1852. His orig- farm, near Canvas, this county, comprised only fifty s, and the substantial success that has attended his gressive activities as an agriculturist and stock-grower idicated in his now being the owner of a well improved valuable landed estate of 350 acres in his native county. is a democrat in political affiliation, and while he has heen ambitious for public office be gave twelve years efficient service as deputy sheriff of the county. Both and his wife are zealous members of the Methodist scopal Church, South, in which he is serving as a mem- of the board of trustees. Of their eight childrea the st is Harvey, who is one of the prosperous farmers of holas County; Elizabeth A. is the wife of Newman 11, of this county; Anderson is a successful merchant farmer of Nicholas County; Worth D., of this review, the next in order of birth; Augustus and Andrew are resentative farmers of Nicholas County, as is also Coff- , who has active charge of the old homestead farm; Lester, who is at the parental home was with the Amer- Expeditionary Forces in France at the time of the late rld war, he having been in a battery of light artillery having been in active conflict at the front for a period forty-five days.

he present postmaster of Richwood did not miss the rous discipline of the home farm in the period of his hood and early youth. His public-school education in- led the curriculum of the high school, and thereafter he for two years a student in the University of West Vir- ia. He put- his scholastic attainments to practical test use by entering the pedagogic profession, as a repre- tative of which he was for thirteen years a successful

teacher in the schools of his native county. Under the civil- service regulations he became a mail carrier from the Rich- wood post office, later was advaneed to the position of as- sistant postmaster, and on the 5th of August, 1919, he was appointed postmaster of this city, the office of which ho is now the incumbent. Mr. McClung gives his political al- legiance to the democratic party, he and his wife aro zcal- ous members of the Presbyterian Church at Richwood, in which he is superintendent of the Sunday school, and he is affiliated with the Richwood Lodge No. 122, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, and with the local lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. September 15, 1912, recorded the marriage of Mr. McClung and Miss Cora Baber, who likewise was born and reared in Nicholas County and who is a daughter of Joseph Baher. The three children of this union are: Paulinc, Worth D., Jr., and Dee.

HAROLD A. RICE is one of the able and popular repre- sentatives of the pedagogic profession in Nicholas County, where he is superintendent of the public schools of the City of Richwood.

Mr. Rice was born on his father's fine homestead farm near Berkeley Springs, Morgan County, West Virginia, and the date of his nativity was October 29, 1894. He is a son of F. E. and Birdie (Fisher) Rice, the former of whom was born near Leesburg, Loudoun County, Virginia, February 21, 1864, and the latter of whom was born in the same historic old commonwealth, on the 19th of February, 1868. The father was given the advantages of the public schools of Virginia and West Virginia, also those of an academy in the State of Maryland. As a young man he gave sixteen years of effective service as a teacher in the public schools of West Virginia, his wife likewise having been a popular teacher prior to their marriage. After his marriage F. E. Rice established his residence on the farm which he pur- chased at a point eleven miles south of Berkeley Springs, Morgan County, West Virginia. He now has a well im- proved landed estate of 260 acres near Berkeley Springs, West Virginia, and has prestige as one of the substantial and progressive exponents of agricultural and live-stock industry in that county. He is a republican ia political ad- hereney, and he served seven years as a member of the County Court of Morgan County. He is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias, and he and his wife hold membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church. Of their five children Ilarold A., of this sketch, is the eldest; Ray R. and his wife reside in Morgan County, where he is a prosperous farmer; Worth K. is a graduate of the University of West Virginia; Ralph L. is a member of the class of 1925 in that institution; and Teddy R. is a student of the high school at Berkeley Springs, he being there a member of the class of 1923.

The stage of the boybood and youthful activities of Har- old A. Rice was the old home farm, and in the public schools of his native county he continued his studies until his grad- uation in the high school at Berkeley Springs in 1912. During the ensuing year he taught ia a rural school in his home county, and in 1914 graduated from the West Vir- ginia State Normal School at Shepherdstown, as president of his class. Thereafter he was principal of graded schools and in 1916-17 was found enrolled as a student in the University of West Virginia. Shortly after the nation became involved in the World war Mr. Rice enlisted, in the summer of 1917, and was assigned to the field artillery division of the United States Army, he having continued in service eighteen months, within which period he rose to the rank of lieutenant and was stationed at various army camps, including Fort Sill, Oklahoma, where he was grad- uated in the advanced school of field artillery. He received his honorable discharge at Camp Knox, Kentucky, where he had been an instructor in artillery firing. He then re- sumed his studies in the State University, in which he was graduated as a member of the class of 1920, with the de- gree of Bachelor of Arts. In the same year he became principal of the high school at Richwood, and in March, 1921, he was advanced to his present position, that of su- perintendent of the public schools of this city.

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Mr. Rice is well fortified in his convictions concerning matters of economic and governmental policy, and is a loyal advocate and supporter of the cause of the repub- lican party. He is affiliated with the Beta Theta Pi college fraternity, and in the Masonic fraternity maintains affilia- tion with DeFord Lodge No. 88, A. F. and A. M .; Rich- wood Chapter No. 37, R. A. M .; and Sutton Commandery No. 16, Knights Templar. He and his wife are zealous members of the Presbyterian Church in their home city.

June 30, 1921, recorded the marriage of Mr. Rice and Miss Beatrice Witt, of Elkins, this state. She graduated from the University of West Virginia in 1920, as a member of the same class as her husband. She is at the time of this writing, in 1922, a specially successful and popular teacher in the Richwood High School.

JAMES HUSTON HALL. In the four years since he came to Huntington as general agent for the Standard Accident Insurance Company of Detroit Mr. Hall has developed the business over his territory, comprising the two states of West Virginia and Kentucky, so that in point of volume and sustained production this is one of the most important gen- eral agencies of the company.

Mr. Hall entered the insurance business in his native State of Kentucky. He was born in Maysville, Mason County, July 10, 1879, representing an old and prominent family of that city. His grandfather, also named James Huston Hall, was born in Pennsylvania in 1817, and lived in Maysville from about 1825. He became a manufacturer of plows, and in 1840 established the James H. Hall Plow Company, which has manufactured a line of agricultural implements for over fourscore years. He was a Southern sympathizer at the time of the Civil war, and for this rea- son was held a prisoner several months in Fortress Mon- roe. He died at Maysville in 1886. His wife was Mary Brooks, who was born in Virginia iu 1818, and died at Maysville in 1889.

James Huston Hall II, son of the pioneer plow manu- facturer, was born at Maysville, February 23, 1849, and spent all his life in his native city. As a youth he became associated with his father's industry, and for a number of years was president of the James H. Hall Plow Company. He died at Maysville January 9, 1909. In politics he was a democrat, was a Mason, and one of the very prominent members of the Baptist Church of Marysville, in which he was a deacon for many years. James H. Hall II married Anna Belle Jackson, who was born at Maysville, February 3, 1855, and died in that city February 27, 1900. They were the parents of three children. Suzanne Huston is the wife of Carroll P. Marshall, special agent at Huntington for the United States Fidelity & Guarantee Insurance Company of Baltimore; Thomas Jackson, who died at San Antonio, Texas, January 4, 1899; and James Huston.

James Huston Hall III acquired a public school educa- tion at Maysville, and from the high school of that city entered the Staunton Military Academy at Staunton, Vir- ginia, where he graduated in May, 1897, with rank of First Captain. After completing his education he went to San Antonio, Texas, and was clerk in the Menger Hotel of that city until 1899, when he returned to Kentucky and began work for the James H. Hall Plow Company as billing clerk. As representative of the third generation of the family he was connected with that industry until 1912, and for some- time before his resignation he was vice president of the company. In 1912 Mr. Hall severed his connection with the plow company to engage in the insurance business. He formed a partnership with C. P. Marshall of Hunting- ton, and under the firm name of Marshall & Hall took the general agency of the Standard Accident Insurance Com- pany of Detroit, Michigan, for Kentucky and West Virginia, Mr. Hall removing to Maysville, where the Kentucky offices were located. In 1918 he purchased the interests of his partner and removed to Huntington. The business is being conducted under the name of James H. Hall "The Accident Man." During four years the volume of business of that company in Kentucky and West Virginia has quadrupled. His offices are in the First National Bank Building.

Mr. Hall is a democrat, was a member of the Maysville

School Board two years, and is a member of the First B tist Church of his native city. June 12, 1900, at Cincinn he married Miss Margaret Duke Watson, daughter of Duke and Mollie (Ravenscraft) Watson, now deceased. I father for many years was a farmer in Kentucky. M Hall finished her education in the St. Francis DeSa? Academy of Maysville. Mr. and Mrs. Hall have a fam of seven children: Annabelle Jackson, born April 14, 19 is a graduate of the Maysville High School and attend Kentucky State University; Mary Watson, born June 1905, was a student in the Maysville High School; Jan Hnston IV, born September 14, 1911; Margaret Duke, ho October 15, 1912; Bessie Duke born October 15, 19] Thomas Jackson, born December 4, 1916; and Willia Franklin, born November 4, 1918.

JOHN GRIGSBY MCCLUER. One of Parkersburg's old and most distinguished lawyers, the late Judge McClu who died April 13, 1921, long retained the vigor a: enthusiasm of youth, was eloquent and brilliant in cor and on the platform, and throughout a long life utiliz to singular advantage his learning, oratory and many oth versatile gifts.

Among many tributes paid him in his character as lawyer one that is most distinctive came from anoth prominent Parkersburg attorney, who said that Judge M. Cluer "never commercialized the practice of his professio giving little attention to the business end, but devoti himself to winning his cases on their merit without exacti a retaining fee, fighting his cases clear through with fai ness, faithfulness and fidelity to his clients; a true ai typical gentleman, a man of strong personality and eloque! orator who loves his profession and was an inspiration . his associates and friends.''

John Grigsby McCluer was of Scotch-Irish ancestry ar was born in Rockbridge County, Virginia, April 8, 184 son of John Steele and Seges Price (Cameron) McClue' As a youth he attended country schools, Rural Valle Seminary near Lexington, and then entered Washington Co lege, now Washington and Lee University, at Lexington While a student there he also attended law lectures b Judge John W. Brockenbrough, whose private law schor was subsequently consolidated with and became the la department of Washington and Lee University. The fin! honors and distinction of Judge McCluer were those of fearless soldier. He entered the Rockbridge Artillery, whos commander afterward was chief of artillery under Genera Lee. Later he joined Company B of the Twelfth Regimer of Virginia Cavalry, and at one time was attached to th staff of Gen. Stonewall Jackson as courier and scout. 1 1864 he was captured, and remained a prisoner of wa at Point Lookout until February, 1865, and the surrende at Appomattox occurred while he was home on a furlough He immediately resumed the study of law under Judg Broekenbrough, graduated from Washington College i 1866, and soon afterward returned home to be with hi father in his last illness. After the death of his fathe in 1867 he took charge of the home farm near Lexington and was busy with those duties until November, 1873 when he removed to Parkersburg and formally began hi career as a lawyer. Judge MeCluer had practiced lav nearly fifty years before his death. He was elected prose cuting attorney of Wood County in 1880, reelected in 1884 and in 1888 Governor E. W. Wilson appointed him judg of the Circuit Court for the Fifth Judicial Circuit. Afte leaving the bench he resumed private practice. He wa one of the most eloqnent orators in the democratic part in Virginia, and participated in nearly all the campaigns He was a democratic elector in 1892, attended the Nationa Convention at Kansas in 1900, and was once a candidat for Congress.

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